Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c26f0835abf405b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 12:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5a237e7819d2b5d60783dd6a01eef692 SHA-1: d77ee3fd65af2818eee72873905d626d13c5f98d SHA-256: c26f0835abf405b75bd7bbd0db5618f80f60333c6d977746bbe6349c06c36cb5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bleach+brave+souls+apk+9.+0.+4', which is also flagged as malicious. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a harmful site, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to game search engine results for malicious purposes.

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bleach+brave+souls+apk+9.+0.+4
    • http://nijali.summitstudyabroad.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682697/lapasugipuvova.pdf
    • http://files.solarplexusbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637186/kepitiwix_fameran.pdf
    • http://files.f-y-t-a.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814411/vebiluren.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7560/9510/files/43269627904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7715/7542/files/watermark_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8371/8042/files/bojosologajiribebojofovad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1104/6558/files/35695834193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1650/2939/files/xidilopakodukorazepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5289/1298/files/83078171431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4798/3006/files/75726787097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8217/7946/files/donusewemarud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3534/4539/files/jazobadaguferixodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1559/4393/files/66732313873.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00006db5.bin
76a18e2110d76f795070fa293de7caa4a55496129a330d2b3887851f40ae409d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x6DB5 12144 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00005a2d.bin
99c368de1873a26b2137d7d373c1a3c4294effbb8f6897b43296443f090e99d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A2D 5752 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009014.bin
bcc3ee93a7e5fbec0922c7ec1008a7ba29e2cf2a5dcbef4064d75b6dbcceca9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9014 15804 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000c143.bin
e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC143 16204 bytes